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General Quiz By Iqbal (2nd SEM) Jorhat Engineering College Quiz Forum

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1. When Pakistan, led by Imran Khan, toured India in 1986-87, they played a one-day match to

commemorate the Cricket Club of India’s Golden Jubilee at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai. The CCI

XI had Roger Binny and Mohammad Azharuddin among others in its ranks, while Wasim Akram, Rameez Raja and Javed Miandad turned up for

Pakistan XI. While fielding, Pakistan were a few men short, and a certain member of Mumbai’s Senior

League offered himself as a substitute. Who?

Sachin Tendulkar

2. Published in 1998,”The Polyester Prince”, an unauthorised biography by Hamish McDonald, was

never sold in India since the business family whose story it chronicles threatened legal action.

Nevertheless, it continues to be popular as an accurate portrayal of one of the most controversial and brilliant Indian businessman. Who is it about?

Dhirubhai Ambani

3. The name comes from an Arabic word meaning “imagination”, and it is the dominant genre of classical singing in north India. This style was popularised by the uncle-nephew pair of Sadarang and Adarang, both of whom were musicians

in the court of Muhammad Shah Rangile. The bandish is generally composed in a variant of Urdu or Hindi, and sometimes in Persian, Marathi or Punjabi, and these

compositions cover diverse topics. What is this style of singing called?

Khayal

4. The legacy of Ackworth Committe of 1921 is still felt in India through an event that happens every February. • What?

Separate Railway Budget every year

5. The Three-mile Limit refers to a traditional and now largely obsolete conception of the international law of the seas which defined a country's territorial

waters, for the purposes of trade regulation and exclusivity. • Why specifically three miles?

Three miles is the distance of a canon shot.

6. Sometime in 2008, a certain Ms Nilamben Parikh scattered some ashes in the Arabian sea and the family

believed that the ceremony healed the rift between the two in the afterlife. • Who are the two?

Harilal and M.K. GandhiNilamben is Harilal’s daughter

7. Sir Charles ___________ (1802 – 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for

displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique). But a device in the

field of electrical sciences his name is most often associated with, was not invented by him. It was

invented by one Samuel Hunter Christie. • Who or what device?

Wheatstone andWheatstone Bridge

8. Some of the most famous brands of Cuban cigars are named after works of literature. Monte

Cristo, Romeo y Julieta etc. Why were such names chosen?

Cuban cigar factories usually have this practice of employing a person, known as a lector, to read out

the day's news, famous works of literature etc to the workers as a form of entertainment to help keep

them going during the long working hours. • So the factory adopted the practice of naming some of their premium brands after the books most demanded by

the rollers

9. Film rights to this international runaway fugitive’s life story were awarded to two separate movie production

houses, one of which is being made under the title Running in the Background ? The other is owned by Warner Bros and

not much is known about their plans . He has also commissioned George Jung (famously portrayed by Johnny

Depp in Blow) to write is official biography named “No Domain”. Who?

John McAfee

10. An excerpt from Outlook India, a landmark movie in the history of Indian cinema. “As the studio was located near a railway track and had no sound-proof stages, X was largely shot at night. They would commence shooting at 1 am after the last local train

had ground to a halt and pack up before the first train left Churchgate station at the stroke of 4 am. The crew also had to be

extra-cautious about extraneous noises, as they were shooting with a Tanar ‘single-system’ camera, which recorded sound directly on

to the film. X took months because of the hazards of having to record under difficult conditions and the need to keep the project a

secret.” ID X

Alam Ara

11. “Why is that we have never heard voices in connection with the freedom of people under the suppression and tyranny of

Pakistani authorities on the other side of the cease-fire line? Why is it that we have not heard here that in ten years these people have not seen a ballot paper? With what voice can either the Security Council or anyone coming before it demand a plebiscite for a people on our

side who exercise franchise, who have freedom of speech, who function under a hundred local bodies?” Excerpt from a speech on 23rd January, 1957, which reportedly concluded with the speaker's

collapse on the floor. Why is this speech famous? Who is the speaker?

V K Krishna Menon,The longest speech in UN

12. X was invented in 1974 and Hungarian patent HU170062 was obtained for the X in 1975 . The first test batches of the

product were produced in late 1977 and released to Budapest toy shops. In September 1979, a deal was signed with Ideal Toys to bring the X to the Western world, and the X made its

international debut at the toy fairs of London, Paris, Nuremberg and New York in January and February 1980. "The Gordian

Knot" and "Inca Gold" were the other names considered but it was marketed as X.What is X?

Rubik’s cube

This is the Church in Maranello, an Italian city. The Church bell ordinarily rings here only on two

occasions. One on Christmas day. Which is the other occasion?

13.

When Ferrari wins a race

14. As a high school student, he/she wrote this research paper: “A Simple Method to Demonstrate the Enzymatic

Production of Hydrogen from Sugar. The other paper on which X is listed as the coauthor , was from 2001, and is titled,

“Frontal Lobe Activation during Object Permanence: Data from Near- Infrared Spectroscopy.” Which academic-oriented

person are we talking about?

Natali Portman